Preliminary study of technical terminology for the retrieval of scientific book metadata records

Birger Larsen
,
Christina Lioma
,
Ingo Frommholz
,
Hinrich Schütze

The Royal School of Library and Information Science
,
University of Copenhagen
,
University of Stuttgart

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Abstract

Books only represented by brief metadata (book records) are particularly hard to retrieve. One way of improving their retrieval is by extracting retrieval enhancing features from them. This work focusses on scientific (physics) book records. We ask if their technical terminology can be used as a retrieval enhancing feature. A study of 18,443 book records shows a strong correlation between their technical terminology and their likelihood of relevance. Using this finding for retrieval yields >+5% precision and recall gains.